77 Facts That Sound Like Huge Lies But Are Actually Completely True

[SonOfTheGods]

1. If you put your finger in your ear and scratch, it sounds just like Pac-Man.
2. The YKK on your zipper stands for “Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha.”
3. Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.
4. Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929.
5. The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice.
6. Cashews grow like this:

 

 

7. And pineapples grow like this:

 

8. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.
9. Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
10. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia.
11. Hippo milk is pink.

12. The toy Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
13. Woody from Toy Story has a full name too — it’s Woody Pride.
14. And while we’re at it, Mr. Clean’s full name is Veritably Clean.
15. Oh, and Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid.
16. Carrots were originally purple.
17. The heart of a blue whale is so big, a human can swim through the arteries.

18. Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is.
19. Home Alone was released closer to the moon landing than it was to today.

20. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
21. Not once in the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme does it mention that he’s an egg.
22. France was still executing people with a guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.
23. Armadillos nearly always give birth to identical quadruplets.
24. Betty White is actually older than sliced bread.

25. The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
26. A strawberry isn’t a berry but a banana is.
27. So are avocados and watermelon.
28. New York City is further south than Rome, Italy.
29. North Korea and Finland are separated by one country.

30. Mammoths went extinct 1,000 years after the Egyptians finished building the Great Pyramid.
31. There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos.
32. Nintendo was founded as a trading card company back in 1889.
33. The man who voiced Fry on Futurama, Billy West, also voiced Doug on Doug.

34. The last time the Chicago Cubs won the baseball World Series, the Ottoman Empire still existed.
35. And lollipops had not yet been invented.
36. And women did not have the right to vote in the United States.

37. If you shrunk the sun down to the size of a white blood cell and shrunk the Milky Way Galaxy down using the same scale, it would be the size of the continental United States.
38. John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, has a grandson who’s alive today.

39. Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was at the beginning of The Fresh Prince.
40. The show the The Wonder Years aired from 1988–1993 and covered the years 1968–1973. Today, in 2014, if one were to make a similar show, it would cover the years 1994–1999.
41. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
42. Duck Hunt is a two-player game. Player two controls the ducks.

43. The difference in time between when Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus lived is greater than the difference in time between Tyrannosaurus Rex and now.
44. One more fact about the Cubs: The last time they won the world series, Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, and New Mexico were not yet states.
45. Speaking of Alaska — it’s simultaneously the most northern, the most western, and the most eastern state in the U.S.
46. Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet.

47. A thousand seconds is about 16 minutes.
48. A million seconds is about 11 days.
49. A billion seconds is about 32 years.
50. And one trillion seconds is about 32,000 years. A trillion is a lot.
51. But the good news is: Honey never spoils. You can eat 32,000-year-old honey.

52. There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth.
53. And there’s enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of water.

54. There are more public libraries than McDonald’s in the U.S.
55. For every human on Earth there are approximately 1.6 million ants. The total weight of all those ants is approximately the same as the total weight of all the humans on Earth.
56. An octopus has three hearts.
57. Mario hits blocks with his hand, not his head.

58. The CEO of Food For The Poor is named Robin Mahfood.
59. One in every 5,000 babies is born with a condition known as “imperforate anus.”. This means the baby is born without an anus and has to have one created manually in the hospital.
60. You can’t hum while holding your nose.
61. It rains diamonds on Saturn and Jupiter.
62. Also, this is what Jupiter would look like if it were as close to us as the Moon is:

 

[SonOfTheGods]

 

63. And this is what sand looks like under a microscope:

 

64. If a piece of paper were folded 42 times, it would reach to the moon.
65. The pyramids were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us.
66. If you dug a hole to the center of the Earth and dropped a book down, it would take 42 minutes to reach the bottom.
67. There is 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.
68. And 90% of the cells that make us up of aren’t human but mostly fungi and bacteria.
69. Every two minutes, we take more pictures than all of humanity in the 19th century.

70. Peanuts are not nuts. They grow in the ground, so they are legumes.

71. Turtles can breathe out of their butts.
72. The dot over an “i” is called a “tittle.”

73. There are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans on Earth.
74. The probability of you drinking a glass of water that contains a molecule of water that also passed through a dinosaur is almost 100%.
75. At the time the current oldest person on Earth was born, there was a completely different set of human beings on the planet.
76. And at the time you were born, you were briefly the youngest person in the entire world.
77. And, finally, “dog food lid” backwards is “dildo of God.”

 

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[SonOfTheGods]

[SonOfTheGods]

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Obesity doesn't make you less intelligent, but it might cloud your cognitive abilities.


We've compiled an entirely unscientific list of reasons why you--and everyone else--are fat, including: bad urban planning, diet soda, driving, your mom, your job, your fork, your genes, your neighborhood, your eating schedule, your eating habits, pesticides, and even your lack of pot smoking.



In a recent study, conducted by researchers at Georgia Regents University, the blood of obese mice had especially high levels of a chemical called interleukin 1, a substance born from fat cells that can cause inflammation. When the researchers later examined the obese mice brains, they found that interleukin 1 had passed the blood-brain barrier--something that normally should not be possible. The substance had seeped into the hippocampus, an area responsible for memory and learning.
The mouse brains also had high levels of inflammation and low levels of a biochemical important to synapse function (synapses ensure messages travel efficiently between neurons).

These findings led to predictable results in how the mouse brains worked: Other obese mice did poorly on mouse-sized cognitive tests, presumably because the interleukin 1 was clogging things up. But the study didn't end there. The researchers wanted to make sure that it was the extra fat cells--and not something else--causing the disturbing brain changes in the mice.
Upon removing fat from the obese mice in a mini-liposuction procedure, the critters scored highly on the same thinking and memory tests they struggled with previously, and the interleukin 1 virtually disappeared from their bloodstreams. When the researchers put fat pads inside thin mice, those previously svelte rodents started doing worse than they had previously on cognitive tests.
Here's the good news: Major surgery isn't necessary to improve cognitive function. Exercise can make a big difference. As the New York Times explains, the researchers ultimately decided to put obese mice on a daily treadmill running regimen. Even though the treadmill runners weighed the same as sedentary mice after three months, they gained lean muscle and lost fat from their midsections. And, most importantly, they started performing better than the non-treadmill runners on cognitive tests. The brain inflammation? Gone. Synaptic health? Restored.
As with any mouse study, a disclaimer is required: none of these findings necessarily apply to humans. But what's the worst that could come from a little extra exercise?

[soaring crane]

haha, cool stuff :-)

 

This blew my mind when I first learned it:

 

67. There is 10 times more bacteria in your body than actual body cells.
68. And 90% of the cells that make us up of aren’t human but mostly fungi and bacteria.

 

It still does.

 

And:

 

71. Turtles can breathe out of their butts.

 

I know a few Yogis who can do that!

 

Also, of course I had to try the humming thing...

 

 

PS - they could add a joke fact:

a man's penis is three times the length of his thumb

 

and after a few lines, added:

 

right now, men are looking at their thumbs

Edited March 19, 2014 by soaring crane

[SonOfTheGods]

71. Turtles can breathe out of their butts.

 

I know a few Yogis who can do that!

 

Also, if course I had to try the humming thing...

 

 

PS - they could add a joke fact:

 

a man's penis is three times the length of his thumb

 

and after a few lines, added:

 

right now, men are looking at their thumbs

haha

 

yeah I tried the humming/holding nose thing too lol

 

yogis can breathe out their anus and some non-yogis can talk out of theirs

 

lolol

 

thumbs up!

[soaring crane]

[joeblast]

64. If a piece of paper were folded 42 times, it would reach to the moon.

 

...which ignores a great many limitations about folding paper. this is similar to the ancient greeks and their ignorance of calculus talking of Achilles' racing the turtle.

[Nungali]

[KenBrace]

Lol that was awesome! And yes I too looked at my thumb and tried humming while holding my nose.

[joeblast]

*shrugs* I was able to hum while holding my nose. of course, it doesnt make a heck of a lot of sound, but the mechanism still works.

 

and the thumb...LOL...I guess that all depends on where you're measuring from

[SonOfTheGods]

if as a child, someone tells you "you're all thumbs!" - becoming a porn star might be in your future

[soaring crane]

64. If a piece of paper were folded 42 times, it would reach to the moon.

 

...which ignores a great many limitations about folding paper. this is similar to the ancient greeks and their ignorance of calculus talking of Achilles' racing the turtle.

 

Joe - if you haven't yet, read the comments at the linked article, I think you'll the conversation :-)

[Captain Mar-Vell]

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With lips parted to only the slightest degree, I can hum fine.

 

Neither does holding my nose impair my throat chanting, which is quite hum-like.

 

I'll let you know about the breathing out of my butt thing.

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